Maloca

Space for affirmative action and student welfare policy action?

Abstract

The purpose of this research is to make an analysis about the Center for the Coexistence of Indigenous Peoples - Maloca and understand its contribution to the permanence of indigenous students at the University of Brasília (UnB). The work in question is the result of the effort made by the aforementioned group of Social Work students during the Social Research discipline. The methodology adopted for the research is semi-open interviews with indigenous students who participated in the Maloca elaboration process or who enjoy the space and institutional actors who contributed (or did not) to this process. As well as bibliographical revision regarding the subject and documentary research concerning the idealization and construction of the Maloca. The results point to the lack of understanding by the indigenous students of Maloca as a space for student assistance, to somehow discharacterize their struggle for space effectiveness. Bearing in mind the National Policy on Student Assistance and the particularities of indigenous culture, the aim was to bring these two axes through Maloca with the objective of broadening the perspective of Student Assistance and the greater recognition and incorporation of history, values ”‹”‹and knowledge of the Indigenous people.